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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 25936819, member: 4626&quot;]I was about to say that not only was there not a Carson City Mint yet in 1840, there wasn&#039;t even a <i>Carson City</i> in 1840.&nbsp; You&#039;d think coins that self-evidently couldn&#039;t even actually exist would be the easiest to get taken down.&nbsp; I caught a few that just based on their dates and mint marks couldn&#039;t possibly be genuine and convinced the sellers to take them down; giving them the benefit of the doubt maybe they didn&#039;t know they weren&#039;t genuine (I remember when the presidential dollars came out there was tons of listings for &quot;errors&quot; where the edge lettering was upside-down, because people didn&#039;t know the orientation on non-proofs was entirely random and thus 50% of them would have supposedly upside-down edge lettering).&nbsp; At some point though you have to figure people don&#039;t legitimately acquire coins of a certain value without knowing what they are.&nbsp; I think the obvious solution would be that eBay should hire at least one person if not a few people who are actually knowledgeable enough about coins to spot obvious fakes and take them down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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